calkin

Etymology

Variant of Culkin.

calkin means A surname from Irish. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

name

A surname from Irish.

noun

A calk (on a horseshoe).“Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride. He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and day And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away.”